Lead Project Manager

1 month ago

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Ocado Logistics Full time
About the Role

The Lead Project Manager will take full ownership and accountability for large-scale end-to-end projects, supporting both our retail partners and internal project delivery teams. This role involves leadership, budget management, and decision-making responsibilities for the full scope of the project.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide visible and effective leadership, with a focus on knowledge sharing.
  • Create and contribute to the company culture and Ocado values.
  • Have direct and indirect people management responsibilities, including day-to-day management of a team and various disciplines.
  • Work side by side with Ocado's partner clients throughout the delivery of the project and be their key 'go to' liaison point for project topics.
  • Ensure that the project is successfully delivered to scope, budget, schedule, and quality.
  • Drive the project by responding proactively to breaking issues, competing priorities, and key dependencies to ensure that the right decisions are taken swiftly.
  • Maintain and monitor progress of the project against Ocado's standard project methodologies.
  • Be the key project decision maker, managing risks and issues within the project with regular reporting and escalating to senior management when appropriate.
  • Inspire confidence across the project with timely, professional communications to all levels of the business.
  • Proactively contribute to the development of best practice for our delivery methodology.
  • Monitor lessons learned with a continuous improvement approach.
Requirements

We're looking for a candidate with:

  • Leadership qualities required to drive each stage of the project with various internal and external teams.
  • Strong ownership and leadership skills, with the ability to quickly earn client and stakeholder trust.
  • The ability to remove blockers by identifying alternative and effective ways to manage projects and teams.
  • Experience in supporting, developing, and mentoring a team and others across Project Management.
  • A highly analytical and logical approach to work.
  • The ability to determine and utilize appropriate communication channels and utilize meaningful insights from data.
  • The ability to read ambiguous situations quickly.
  • Experience in understanding and appropriately challenging expert opinions.
  • The ability to respond quickly and effectively to changing priorities.
  • Experience in influencing a wide range of business professionals across all levels.
  • The ability to communicate complex ideas across projects and senior leadership teams.
  • The ability to show initiative, self-motivation, and innovation.
  • The ability to hold effective conversations and share information of good quality.
  • The ability to actively listen, understand, and respond to stakeholders and customers.
  • The ability to proactively maintain good working relationships.
  • The ability to actively support business growth, process, and operational improvement.
  • Experience leading and delivering large-scale projects as the project lead.
  • Customer-facing project experience.
  • Skills in an additional language (ideally Korean).
  • Exposure to international clients and/or projects.
  • Proficiency with project management tools.
  • Experience leading people across major capital projects.
  • Skills in managing contracts, including high labor content.
  • A Bachelor's Degree level or higher, or equivalent experience.
  • A formal project management qualification, such as PMP, APM (PMQ, PPQ), or Prince 2 Practitioner.
What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, a work-from-home policy, 30 days 'working from anywhere' policy, wellbeing support, a pension scheme, private medical insurance, and more.

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